I * ut THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1962 THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina Page THREE Some Looks At Books By LOCKIE PARKER THE CACTUS AND THE CROWN by Catherine Gavin (Dojibleday $4.95). A little ghi from Fayetteville, North Caro lina, inherits a hacienda in Mexi co and plays a part in some strange adventures in this his torical romance. It was shortly after the Civil War, Sally Lori- mer was eighteen. Her father, a Scotch minister, had just died. Her older sister had perished in the siege of Vicksburg. That left Sally and her brother Andrew, who had recently returned from service as a doctor in the Con federate army. They had little money, and An drew had yet to build up a civ ilian practice. Then they received word that an uncle in Mexico had died and left everything to his brother’s children-^to Andrew his medical practice and town house in Mexico City and to Sally his sugar plantation. Sally was eager, Andrew reluctant as they started for Mexico. They sailed from New Orleans with a party of unreconciled Confederates planning to establish a colony in Mexico under the leadership Of Matthew Maury. This was during the brief reign of Emperor Maximilian in Mexico —only few expected it to be brief at that time. The wise old uncb who had left them his worldl- goods left them also a letter, ad vising “Steer clear of the Emper or Maximilian. He is an amiable ass married to an hysterical and ambitious woman.” But fate made ths almost impossible, since Andrew and Sally met the Em peror even before they reached Mexico City and under circum stances which left him much im pressed with Andrew’s profes sional skill. The book is mainly Sally’s story, how she made friends in Mexico, how she persisted in hanging on to her sugar planta tion and even running it despite the protests of those around her— women did not do such things in Mexico. It tells, too, of her stormy romance with a sergeant of the Foreign Legion and how she became involved in the af fairs of the unhappy Empress Carlota. Altogether it makes a big, col orful historical novel, illumina ting a little known chapter in the history of North America. 'The threads of the narrative are skill fully woven; so that we never lose interest in the central char acters as they find love, tragedy, adventure in this alien land and grow to maturity themselves. THE DEATH OF AHASEUHAS by Par Lagerkvist (Random House $3.75). This new novel by the author of “Barabbas” and winner of the Nobel Prize is of a special genre for which some other name than novel should be invented. It is a mystical and symbolical fantasy written with the intense emotional concentration of poetry. In an isolated inn in the moun tains, a company of pilgrims are resting one stormy evening on their way to the Holy Land. ’There, also, are other men and women drinking and gambling, brigands who lurk in those mountains and the harlots who follow them. The room is suddenly illumina ted by a blaze of lightning as the door oi>ens and a stranger enters. The storm renews its fury. The stranger sits a bit apart from the others and talks to another lone ly man, a Pilgrim without faith but keeping a vow made under curious circumstances. The stran ger turns out to be the Wander ing Jew, who in this tale reaches he end of his journey through a magnificent act of faith. COMMON SENSE ABOUT PSYCHOANALYSIS by Rudolph Wittenberg (Doubleday $3.95). A practicing psychoanalyslst, dis turbed by prevalent misconcep tions about his profession, an swers the questions most ofter asked of him, in this book. He explains what goes on dur ing analysis, with particular at tention to the technique of free association; discusses the patieiil and his family and how the pa tient-analyst relationship affects the former’s other relationships and devotes a chapter to the special problems of analytic ther apy with children and young peo ple. Finally he describes the an alysts’ training and how to choose an analysist and estimate the cost and duration of analysis. In addi tion, he outlines the other forms of psychotherapy. Pointing out that mental illness is a national menace, growing yearly more ominous in its pro portions, he suggests what kind of person can be helped by psycho analysis and refers the reader to local and national mental health organizations for further infor mation. A sensible book written for the intelligent layman. MORNING IN ANTIBES by John Knowles (Macmillan $3.95). John Knowles is a former associ ate editor of Holiday Magazine as well as the author of a note worthy first novel, “A Separate Peace.” In this novel the Holiday editor sometimes seems upper most. The scene is the French Riviera — Juan-les-Pins—and we get much description of umbrella pines, orange roofs, blue skies, shimmering seas, delicious food and exactly what everyone is wearing. There is also a good deal about bars and night clubs, ca sinos and villas, “a feeling of fash ionable stimulation in the air.” We meet many odd types from de cadent aristocrats to beatniks, and especially “the gamblers of Juan- les-Pins who played not for money but for love with their bodies as stakes.” But along with this travel liter ature you eventually discover that the author is seriously con cerned about two things. One is the problem of Nick, the narrator, who is seeking in this hectic at mosphere escape from his attach ment to a young wife who has turned out to be a nymphomaniac. More important—or, at least, more appealing—is the problem of the gentle Arab, Jeannot, who loves France but is a police sus- cect just because he is Algerian. Bookmobile Schedule Feb. 26-Maich 1 Monday, Feb. 26, Union Church Route: Mrs. R. L. Comer, 9:30- 9:35; J. M. Briggs, 9:40-9:45; Clif ford Hurley, 9:55-10:05; Mrs. Ina Bailey, 10:10-10:15; M. L. Patter son, 10:20-10:25; Elbert Taylor, 10:30-10:35; Parker’s Grocery, 10:40-10:45; Howard Gschwind, 10:50-11; Mrs. O. C. Blackbrenn, 11:05-11:15; Jack Morgan, 11:20- 11:30; Mrs. M. D. Mclver, 11:45- 11:55; Arthur Gaines, 12:05-12:15; Wesley 8homas, 12:20-12:25. Tuesday, Feb. 27, Niagara, Lakeview, Eureka Route: J. D. Lewis, 9:30-9:35; Ray Hensley, 9:45-10:20; Mrs. E. W. Marble, 10:30-10:40; C. G. Priest, Sr., 10:50-10:55; Bud Crockett, 11- 11:10; J. L. Danley, 11:20-11:30; Homer Blue, 11:40-11:50; Mrs. C. B. Blue, 11:55-12; R. E. Lea, 12:10- 12:20. Wednesday, Feb. 28, Roseland, Colonial Hts., Route: A. M. Stan- cil Jr., 9:45-9:55; Larry Simmons. 10-10:10; Morris Caddell, 10:15- 10:25; R. E. Morton, 10:30 10:40; Mrs. Viola Kirk, 10:45-10:55; Mrs. Onnie Seago, 11-11:05; Calvin La- ton, 11:10-11:20; Marvin Hartsell, 11:25-11:35; Elva Laton, 11:45- 11:55; W. M. Smith, 1:15-1:25; J. J. Greer, 1:30-1:55. Thursday, March 1, Glendon Highfalls Route: Ernest Shepley, 9:30-9:40; R. F. Willcox, 9:50- 10:05; the Rev. Jefferson Davis 10:15-10:25; Presley Store, 10:30 10:35; Carl Oldham, 10:40-10:50 Norris Shields, 11-11:10; Mrs Helen Mhness, 11:5-12:05; Ann Powers Beauty Shop, 12:15-12:20 Presley Service Station, 12:25 12:30; Edgar Sheilds, 12:40-12:50 W. F. Ritter Jr., 1:05-1:15; Wilmer Maness. 1:20-2. Kin of GoU World Founder Succumbs Dick Harlow, gentleman, schol ar and football coach, died at the age of 72 Monday. He had been under treatment at Bethesda Nav al Hospital since January 4 for a circulatory ailment. Death was apparently caused by a heart at tack. He was a cousin of the late Robert E. Harlow, founder of Golf World magazine, published in Pinehurst. Harlow was a football coach at Little Western Maryland College in Westminster, at Penn State. Colgate and at Harvard. At Har vard, he coached football for 36 years and was also curator of the ornithology department. He was voted into the Helms College Football Hall of Fame in 1954. Funeral services were held Wednesday with burial today, Thursday, in Pine Grove Ceme tery, South Sterling, Pa. SPEAKER — James A. Barrus of Charlotte, president of the Synod of North Caro lina Men of the Church, will speak on “Man and the Chal lenge” at the dinner meeting of the Men of the Church of Brownson Memorial Presby terian Church, to be held in the fellowship hall Tuesday, February 27, at 7 p.m. Mr. Baprrus, Who is purchasing agent and office manager of the Lee Construction Co. at Charlotte, is an elder in Sugaw Creek Presbyterian Church and has been, active in Presbyterian and Synod men’s work for six years. He is a past president of the Mecklenbimg FTesbytery Men of the Church. A graduate of The Citadel at Charleston, S. C., he is married and has two children. "WE LIKE TO THINK . . , " During recent years several new industries have come to Southern Pines and, by the looks of things, more are on the way. This means more jobs for local folks, more funds circulating in local pockets, more good citizens coming here to live . . . During the past year a dozen or more drives have been held here for funds in support of better health, better education, to alleviate human need ... During the past year more people have come here to live, attracted by what they hear or have read of the climate, the sports, the pleasant living, the charm of a friendly, attractive community . . . News of all this appears regularly in the columns of this newspaper and we like to think that The Pilot lends a hand in such good causes. Fill in and mail this coupon for regular delivery. The Pilot, Inc. Southern Pines, N. C. Enclosed find check or money order to start my sub scription at once. Please send it to the name and ad dress shown below for the period checked. ( ) 1 yr. $4.00 ( ) 1 yr. $5.00 Name Address City County ( ) 6 mo. $2.00 Outside County ( ) 6 mo. $2.50 ( ) 3 mo. $1.00 ( ) 3 mo. $1.25 State He attaches himself first to Nick as instinctively as a stray dog, by various wiles gets himself accept ed first as a servant and even tually as a friend. The author is realistic about the Arab’s differ ent standards of ethics and con duct, different reactions to some situations; but you do get new in sight into the roots of the resent ment minorities feel toward the dominant group. Jeannot’s own conflict is resolved when a per sonal tragedy makes him real ize that he is more Algerian than French. PROMO'TED — Lynn H. Ledden, Sanford native who taught for six years at Sou thern Pines High School be fore becomiing sales represen tative of the Upjohn Company several years ago, has been promoted to district super visor for the company, with headquarters in Greensboro. Mr. and Mrs. Ledden and their three-year-old daughter, Melinda, are living at 3210 Birchwood Lane, Greensboro. Mr. Ledden was formerly sales representative in the Raleigh territory of the com pany. WHITE'S REAL ESTATE AGENCY ESTHER F. WHITE. Broker Phone 692-8831 PILOT ADVERTISING PAYS Eastman Dillon, Union Securities & Co. Members New York Stock Exchange MacKenzie Building 135 W. New Hampshire Ave. Southern Pines, N. C. Telephone: Southern Pines OX 5-7311 Complete Investment and Brokerage Facilities Direct Wire to our Main Office in New York A. E. RHINEHART Resident Manager Consultations by appointment on Saturdays WHO KILLED SOCIETY? by Cleveland Amory Illustrated - $6.50 THE LAST PLANTAGENETS by Thomas B. Costain $5.75 Many new novels 180 W. Penna. Ave. OX 2-3211 FOR GULF FUEL OIL & KEROSENE Call Page & Shamburger, Inc. Aberdeen Windsor 4-2414 SP The Clean Life Lesson for February 25, 1962 VW^HAT is the most valuable feature of American life? It is not the supermarkets, the big double-lane highways, it isn’t the cars or even the schools. Many, even Christians, would say it is not even the churches that are the best Ameri can possession. What is it (the reader is invited to think) which could get along without the Dr. Foreman church, but with out which the church would soon wither away? The answer, of course, is the Christian home. Christian church and Christian home support each other; sometimes with an assist from the school, sometimes not. But the home is more indispen sable to the church than the church to the home. What then is the inner support and foundation of a Christian home? The obvious answer is, Christian marriage. Failure of a marriage means failure of a home. Attack on home Today the home is under atiatk. \’ot directly; no one would get a moment’s hearing if he advertised himself as opposed to good homes But indirectly, in countless ways, marriages can be, and often are. ooisoned in advance. It is well 'mown that one marriage in four •he country over, ends in divorce; and that though divorced persons aften re marry (for the stark and simple reason that they already have cheated wife or husband) they are not likely to make much more of the second try than the first. One of the deadliest ways to poison a marriage beforehand is to come to it no longer a virgin; and this holds true for man and wom-an alike. From the very be ginning, the Christian church and the Jewish synagogue have held up one standard for raarriaae lontinence before, and chastity faithfulness each to each) during marriage. Whatever breaks down that standard does something to 'oreak down marriage itself. A 'home" where husband and wife ire both survivors of many affairs with other people, a marriage that knows nothing of faithfulness, a marriage ready to break in two he minute a homesomer man oi a more alluring woman co nes ci the scene,—such a “home" is likely to have little or no regarc for any children and may eve- resent them. .'lind and body The laws of any place fall be bind the best ideals of the bes. people Any good lawyer wil admit as much. But even the law clumsy and “external” as it must be, knows that adultery is wrong But by the time adultery gets int( the courts, or becomes a tragic basis for divorce, it has been going on for a long time. Jesus put it quite bluntly. Any man who looks on a woman with lust in his heart, has already committed adultery with her. There are only three requirements for any act, good or bad: desire, capacity, op portunity. And an act of adultery exists for a longer or shorter time in a mind first. A clean life is not one that lacks legally pun ishable acts. A clean life is one in which the law is not needed; it is a life that supplies its own.dis cipline. Our special problems In America at this time and for a generation or more before now, the Christian ideal of continence before marriage, chastity during it, itself has been eroded by con stant attack. Consider the books and magazines for sale at your nearby drugstores; consider the themes of popular moving pic tures and novels; consider the moral standards of Hollywood and of their influence on our national life. Consider the way women and girls dress. To maintain a clean life in the midst of surrounding such as are common in America is extremely difficult, more sc than for most previous centuries Yet there is one thing it will help us to keep in mind. That is, that at the time the Christian church began, standards of rela tions between men and women, in the Roman Empire, where the infant church was born, were just as low as they are in America today, if not lower. Yet the ideals of Christ outlived the empire. The future of America is not with those large areas of corruption; it is with the small groups that intend to remain clean. (Based oa oatllnes eopf^hted hj ths Blvislon sf Christian S^aeatlon, National Connell of ths Chnrehss sf Christ la ths IJ. S. A. Bslsassd by Commnnltp Press Ssrvles.) PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS Next Sunday lnt«m«tlonal Unilorm Sunder School Lossonf BY DR. KENNETH 1. FOREMAN Bible Material: Exodus 20:14; Daniel 1: Matthew 5:27-30; Mark 7:14-23. Devotional Reading: 2 Corinthians 6:14-18. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH New York Avo. at Sonth Ashe St. Maynard Manffnai. Minister Bible School, 9:45 a.m. Worship 11 s.m. Traioine Union, 6:30 p.m. Evening Wor ship. 7:80 p.m. Youth Fellowship, 8:80 p.m. Scout Troop 224, Monday, 7 :S0 p.m.; mid-week worship, Wednesday 7:30 p.m.; choir practice Wednesday 8:15 p.m. Missionary meeting, first and third Tues days, 8 p.m. Church and family suppers, second Thursday, 7 p.m. ST. ANTHONY’S CATHOLIC Vermont Ave. at Ashe Sunday Masses: 8 and 10:80 a.m.; Dsil) Mass 8:10 a.m. Holy Day Masses, 7 A f a.m.; Confessions, Saturday, 6:00 to 5:if p.m.: 7 ;30 to 8 p.m. Men’s Cluh Meetings: Ist A 8rd Fridays 8 p.m. Women’s Club meetings: Ist Monday 8 p.m. Boy Scout Troop No. 873, Wednesday 7 :80 p.m. Girl Scout Troop No. llx Monday, t p.m. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH New Hampshire Avenue Sunday Service, 11 a.m. Sunday Sfthool, 11 a.m. Wednesday Service, 8 p.m. Reading Room in Church Building open Wednesday, 2-4 p.m. MANLY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Sunday School 9:46 a.m. Worship Serv ice 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Women of the Church meeting. 8 p.m. second Tuesday. Mid-week service Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Choir Rehearsal, Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. THE UNITED CHURCH OP CHRIST (Church of Wide Fellowship) Cor. Bennett snd New Hampshire Carl E. Wallace, Minister Sunday School. 9:45 a.m. Worship Service, 11 a.m. Sunday, 6:30 p.m.. Pilgrim Fellowehts (Young People). Sunday, 8:00 p.m., The Fomm. EMMANUEL CHURCH xEplseopal) East Massachusetts Are. Martin Caldwell, Rector Holy Communion, 8 a.m. (First Sundays